I do fear that doing any more could result in a much more severe version of what happened in GOTY this year, that a game that everyone likes/respects (but few people adore) would win over a game that has some real champions
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I do fear that doing any more could result in a much more severe version of what happened in GOTY this year, that a game that everyone likes/respects (but few people adore) would win over a game that has some real champions
I didn't play KH3, was it that bad? To barely scrape the top 20 is crazy considering the hype around it. I feel like it got forgotten about very quickly.
For 2018, I voted for a remake as my number one choice (Yakuza Kiwami 2), but when the results were posted, I discovered it wasn't eligible for the top 20 because it was a remake. For 2019, I voted for a remake as my number one choice and it took the top spot.
Resident Evil 2 winning despite being only 4th in terms of #1 votes, whereas a game with a ton of number one votes like Shadowbringers is completely shut out.
It's not inherently a bad thing, I just prefer to recognized the more divisive but truly "great" over the very very good
It's a bummer that FF14 didn't make the top 20, but to be fair, the number of #1 votes for RE2 is an order of magnitude greater than the amount that Shadowbringers got
67 people voted for Shadowbringers. 34 had it at #1, and an additional 21 had it at #2 or #3. It has the highest average score per ballot of any game this year (excluding stuff that was only on a single ballot at #1), so you are indeed correct that had more people played it it might've done very well!
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I forgot to make a ballot this year, partly because I didn't play many games, the main culprit being I played 450 hours of FFXIV. It would have been #2.
Oh well
Yeah I'm not super upset about it, it's just an interesting quirk of how people play games (especially large timesinks like FF14)
This would be more relevant for a GOTD discussion. I don't have as much of an issue with RE2 winning this year, I was more saying that a result like that could be exacerbated on a larger ballot.
PC VR had some impressive games in Asgard's Wrath and Stormland this year but Truth & Blood was probably the best Time Crisis like game I have played this millenium (with an entertaining and well acted London action story). It was let down by the PS Move hardware unfortunately, would probably be my number 1 VR title otherwise.
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Worse than last year? Damn rip video games
2020 is gonna turn shit around tho, I can feel it. New console hype, whatever big Nintendo games they got, TLOU 2, Doom, Cyberpunk, I think enthusiasm is gonna be higher if they all deliver.
I wanted to play Shadowbringers but I hate the idea of a monthly fee for a single game, as it would put pressure on me to play as much of that game as I possibly could during that time frame, otherwise I would feel like my money is going to waste; that would mean shunning other games, and I couldn't really do that. Plus, I'm behind on FFXIV anyways, having only beaten ARR, so I'd have to either rush through the previous expansions or pay even more money just to get to the new stuff, and that didn't seem very appealing either. So yeah it makes sense that more people haven't played it, as there is a pretty high barrier to entry imo.
That's a pretty solid top ten, and I'm really happy to see Fire Emblem in the top 3.
Overall, 2019 was a pretty strong year, and now we just have to see what 2020 brings.
Overall, 2019 was a pretty strong year, and now we just have to see what 2020 brings.
I noticed VA 11 HALL A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action under best simulation game, it got 19 points...didn't that come out in 2016?
I think 2017 is throwing things out of proportion a little cause holy shit that year. GAF had this too. Just compare the votes in 2015 with Bloodborne, Witcher 3, MGS5 to 2012, when Journey won GOTY.Worse than last year? Damn rip video games
2020 is gonna turn shit around tho, I can feel it. New console hype, whatever big Nintendo games they got, TLOU 2, Doom, Cyberpunk, I think enthusiasm is gonna be higher if they all deliver.
I mean there wasn't that uber popular ~10 million selling 1st party game(or a Rockstar/CDPR tier 3rd party release) to drive excitement. Hence all the '2019 was weak' talk. Which I couldn't disagree with more. My personal favorite gaming year since 2015 hands down.
Based on the spreadsheet it was listed as action adventure rather than just adventure. It has 156 points so it would have been #1 if included on that list
I wish Re Mind came out earlier. These bosses would've shot it up my list by a lot
Worse than last year? Damn rip video games
2020 is gonna turn shit around tho, I can feel it. New console hype, whatever big Nintendo games they got, TLOU 2, Doom, Cyberpunk, I think enthusiasm is gonna be higher if they all deliver.
the extra ballots accounts for all of the PC users who got banned
Can't really fault the top 20 picks. A bit disappointed in the individual genres, it seems obvious that in many cases the only one people played was voted. I mean, Untitled Goose Game just dwarved all real sims, likewise CTR murdered a lot of great racing games from this year for sheer popularity alone. Still, kudos to all the winners.
there just wasn't that one big game everyone could rally around and say "yep, GOTY" like BotW or God of War
for comparison, with a very similar amount of ballots, God of War got 330 #1 votes and ended up with 2,351 points. RE2 ended up with a point total very close to Spider-Man, very solid, very polished,very accessible B+ game that everybody at least liked if not loved. But in absence of any big juggernauts it took GOTY.
I doubt that'll happen again this year.
the game of the decade thread will be hella interesting, i hope the correct game wins. ghost trick
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